CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions
CAT/2003
Question . 69
In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.
A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown to be much faster.
C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric typewriters and then PCs) the antijamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often jammed.
Explanatory Answer
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(b) C tells us about the QWERTY design which was aimed to solve a mechanical typewriters, E explains the mechanical problem and A states how the mechanical problem could be avoided using the QWERTY layout, B tells us about the different layout patented by August Dvorak which was much faster, D concludes by saying that the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted.